USAGE

DESCRIPTION

This command provides simple facilities for converting current system
state into Puppet code, along with some ability to modify the current
state using Puppet's RAL.

By default, you must at least provide a type to list, in which case
puppet resource will tell you everything it knows about all resources of
that type. You can optionally specify an instance name, and puppet
resource will only describe that single instance.

If given a type, a name, and a series of attribute=value pairs,
puppet resource will modify the state of the specified resource.
Alternately, if given a type, a name, and the '--edit' flag, puppet
resource will write its output to a file, open that file in an editor,
and then apply the saved file as a Puppet transaction.

OPTIONS

Note that any setting that's valid in the configuration
file is also a valid long argument. For example, 'ssldir' is a valid
setting, so you can specify '--ssldir directory' as an
argument.

See the configuration file documentation at
https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/configuration.html for the
full list of acceptable parameters. A commented list of all
configuration options can also be generated by running puppet with
'--genconfig'.

--debug

Enable full debugging.

--edit

Write the results of the query to a file, open the file in an editor,
and read the file back in as an executable Puppet manifest.

--help

Print this help message.

--param

Add more parameters to be outputted from queries.

--types

List all available types.

--verbose

Print extra information.

--to_yaml

Output found resources in yaml format, suitable to use with Hiera and create_resources.

EXAMPLE

This example uses puppet resource to return a Puppet configuration for
the user luke: